35 days: VP Harris refuses to reveal policy positions, give news conferences or interviews
Vice President Kamala Harris has gone five weeks refusing to give specifics to voters about her policy positions, holding no news conferences and sitting for zero major interviews since becoming the Democrats' presidential nominee.
Harris spoke on Thursday at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), officially accepting the nomination, and has been busy on the campaign trail, but she has failed to face substantive questions since replacing President Biden on the ticket last month.
Now that the party's national convention has wrapped up, speculation about when Harris will end her media blackout is likely to pick up steam as Americans want to know where she stands on a variety of hot-button issues. Policy shifts on fracking, border security and private health insurance are among issues that she has been urged to explain in recent weeks.
During one of her rare and brief press gaggles, Harris insisted on Aug. 9 that she wanted "to get an interview scheduled before the end of the month." But now, there's just over a week until the calendar flips to September and Harris has not announced any sort of interview.
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Harris laughed and said, "I’m working towards it," on Thursday night when Fox News' Peter Doocy asked if she was ready for a Fox News interview following her scripted DNC speech.
Among other questions she got Thursday night was "how do you feel tonight?" after her convention acceptance speech. "I feel good, now onto tomorrow, "Harris said, laughing.
Another NBC reporter asked how it felt for her to be on the stage.
"It felt good," Harris said. "You know, we've got 75 days to go … That was good, now we've got to move on."
"You will not see one press